Broken Hallelujah

Arundhati Roy and other international anti-war advocates on Monday accused the United States and Britain of war crimes in Iraq and called at a "tribunal" in Turkey for direct action against companies that profited from the conflict.

The symbolic tribunal, uniting former U.N. officials, legal experts and human rights activists, sought the immediate withdrawal of coalition forces from Iraq and payment of reparations for the damage caused during the conflict.

"We recommend that people throughout the world launch actions against U.S. and UK corporations that directly profit from this war," Arundhati Roy, India's Booker Prize-winning novelist, told a news conference at the end of the meeting. Link

And this from Scott Ritter...
Ritter told people they need to acknowledge and accept that the battle to stop the war has been lost and the United States will pay a heavy price.

"This is our Pearl Harbor. The U.S. has taken a big hit and it's going to take a long time to dig out."[more »]

I've heard so many lies now that anything I hear that closely resembles the truth just scares the shit right out of me.